Blokes - Playing Guitars

(and a banjo). That was how Toby described last night's Open Mic session at Kilvert's, and he was one of the blokes with guitars.
I'd gone in early for a Transition Town meeting, and stayed on for the music later.
And to save my typing fingers, the following is cut-and-pasted from the Transition Town newsletter:

Might you be free on Sunday 25th March to join a work party for the ‘Garden in Transition’?
Some of you may remember that a Transition-themed demonstration garden was installed next the entrance of the Hay Festival site a couple of years ago. The idea behind this project is to create a space with the participation of the local community; using reclaimed, recycled and donated materials and plants; which looks amazing; and will be seen by over 100,000 people. Hopefully it will inspire other similar projects based on sharing skills and creatively using recycled and reclaimed materials.
This year, Brecknock Wildlife Trust will be designing the garden. They are looking for volunteers to help out for some or all of the day (between 10am and 3pm). If you are handy with a saw and hammers, your skills would be useful. If you would like to pick up a few practical skills, that would be great as well. Also, it will hopefully be a good social occasion. There will be cake!
This message is to find out if in principle you might be interested in coming along to help out. You don’t need to commit firmly at this stage, we would just like to get an idea of numbers. If you are interested in coming along, or would like more information, please let me know or contact Dave Prescott on daveprescott@me.com or call 01497 831 194.
If you don’t have time to be there in person on the day but would still like to be involved, here are some other ways to help out:
- if you have a pond that you’re thinning out and could donate marginal plants in pots, these would be welcome
- if you would like to raise wildflowers, seeds and pots can be provided
- you could loan a rotavator
- you could donate tall plants such as bamboo, miscanthus, reed, canary grass, bulrush or reeds
- you could donate hazel hurdles or wattle fencing
- you could donate recycled planks for the steps

Also, Hayfield Garden is coming back into full swing shortly - contact Phoebe Boulanger on hayfieldgarden@gmail.com for further details.
Looking much further into the future, there will be another Walking Festival in October, and the Transition themed walk last year went down so well that they want to repeat it - so if anyone would like to show off their garden, or insulation, or bike, or anything else around the transition theme (how to live when the oil runs out), please let Anna know at Drover Holidays.